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Back
noun · 78% connection
The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Backplate
noun · 78% connection
A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Batoidei
n. pl. · 78% connection
The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Cataphracted
adjective · 78% connection
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Caudal
adjective · 78% connection
Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Cue
noun · 78% connection
The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Curlycue
noun · 78% connection
Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Curtail dog
unknown · 78% connection
A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut sho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Die
noun · 78% connection
A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Dock
noun · 78% connection
The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cut…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Dorsiferous
unknown · 78% connection
Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Elasmobranch
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Globefish
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Iguana
noun · 78% connection
large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and Sout…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Lamella
noun · 78% connection
a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Laminate
verb · 78% connection
To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
Lead
noun · 78% connection
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: spiny, plates, foundon, back, tail.
